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@ -68,11 +68,10 @@ You can also add a new balance assertion, following the amount as in journal for
The new transaction's date, and the new posting's posting date if any (entered in a comment following the amount),
will influence assertion checking.
You can use `-I`/`--ignore-assertions` to disable this assertion checking.
You can use `-I`/`--ignore-assertions` to disable assertion checking temporarily.
## add and balance assignments
If you try to add a new posting which is dated earlier than a balance assignment in that account and commodity, it will be rejected.
It's because by the time `add` runs, all balance assignments have been processed and have become assertions.
So if you need to do this, add the `-I` flag to disable assertions temporarily.
([#2406](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/2406)).
When `add` runs, it sees the journal with all balance assignments already processed and converted to assertions.
So if you add a new posting which is dated earlier than a balance assignment, it will break the assertion and be rejected.
If you need to do this, use `hledger add -I`.